# actually the short way returns an error / PARENTHESES (OT)

[Thomas McGrath III]

Your right about the ^ being a caret/carrot.
But what then are the left and right angle brackets called besides left 
and right brackets or less than/greater than???


any ideas???

T

On Feb 22, 2004, at 10:36 AM, Marian Petrides wrote:

> Actually a caret  is  a ^  (shift 6 on your keyboard).  Is "carrot" 
> the correct jargonese or just a misspelling of "caret?"
>
> M
>
> On Feb 22, 2004, at 9:45 AM, Thomas McGrath III wrote:
>
>> < > are angle brackets in typography! but in computer jargon they 
>> have always been called carrots around here....
>>
>>
>> Tom
>>
>> On Feb 22, 2004, at 7:09 AM, shishilite at hotpop.com wrote:
>>
>>>> What is the english name of these <>?
>>>
>>> I thought these are called "angle brackets" ? :)
>>>
>>> http://info.astrian.net/jargon/terms/a/angle_brackets.html
>>>
>>> Shishi
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